
1959 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Charles Binger
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cover art by Milton Luros
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D.L. Champion, “The Corpse That Wasn’t There” (Insp. Allhoff)
Norbert Davis, “Come UP and Kill Me Some Time” (Bail Bond Dodd)
Cornell Woolrich, “Murder at Mother’s Knee” (Johnny Gaines)
T.T. Flynn, “Salt Water Slay-Ride”
Jan Dana, “Death with Father” (Acme Indemnity Op)


“Patrick Quentin” was the pseudonym of Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb
published in the US in 1952 as Black Widow, a Simon & Schuster hardcover. published the following year in the UK by Gollancz with this different title. 8th with Broadway producer Peter Duluth.
cover art by Sam Peffer?

cover art by Robert Stanley
1948 Rinehart hardcover, this the 1950 Dell mapback
Hamilton’s second novel, his first Matt Helm was 13 years away
evil smile on that dame’s face…
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[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]
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Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)
Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)
Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”
D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”
O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”


June-July 1949 issue